The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome / by Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ;...
The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome / by Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ;...
The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome / by Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; with a foreword by Malcolm Schofield ; (with the collaboration of Greg Rowe, Joëlle Prim and Jason Harris).
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Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/2298
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English
French
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Physical content
xxi, 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword Malcolm Schofield; Preface; Introduction to the English edition; Roman culture in movement; 1. Crises and questionings; 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity; 3. From disarray to erudition; 4. The experience of thought; 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms; 6. The...
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Publisher
Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Edition
English edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
"In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals...
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The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome / by Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; with a foreword by Malcolm Schofield ; (with the collaboration of Greg Rowe, Joëlle Prim and Jason Harris).
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Translation of La raison de Rome: naissance de l'esprit critique à la fin de la République (IIe-Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ) published by Seuil in 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-374) and index.
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Translated from the French.
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G 2016/2298
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74VKVP04AKBO
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ISBN
0521895782 (hardback)
9780521895781 (hardback)
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937/.63
MMS ID
991023996216602626
